COURTESY OF ENGINEERING

OLYMPIC AND TITANIC 1912

LUSITANIA 1906

GREAT EASTERN 1858

CAMPANIA 1893

PARIS 1868

A Comparison of Bulkhead Protection in Some Notable Ships

The wisdom of this construction was demonstrated years later, when, as a result of an accident to her engines, the two largest adjoining compartments of the City of Paris were flooded, at a time when the ship was 150 miles off the coast of Ireland. There was no wireless in those days to send out its call for help, and for three days the ship drifted in a helpless condition. Thanks to her lofty bulkheads, the good ship stood the ordeal and was finally brought into port without the loss of a single passenger.

BULKHEAD SPACING ON NOTABLE SHIPS

NAMEDate of
Building		Registered
Length,
Feet[1]		No. of
Main
W. T.
Bulkheads		Average
Length
of
Compart-
ments		Per cent.
of
Length
Titanic1911852.515536.2
Lusitania1907762.016455.9
George Washington1908699.013507.1
Great Eastern1854-59680.096810.0
Carmania1905650.015507.8
Campania1893601.086711.1
New York1888517.014376.7
Alma1894270.711238.3